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OpenAI says it has disrupted a large-scale scam operation based in Cambodia, where criminals were using ChatGPT to run romance fraud, fake investment schemes, and operations tied to human trafficking. The company banned accounts, blocked new registrations, and shared its findings with authorities. It's a sharp reminder that AI tools are only as trustworthy as the hands holding them.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is walking back a feature it only just announced. Domain Exclusion for Microsoft three sixty five Copilot, which would have let users block specific websites from influencing the assistant's answers, has been pulled days after it rolled out. No clear explanation yet. For businesses that had already started configuring their exclusion lists, it's a frustrating reversal that raises real questions about feature stability.
And in Washington, scrutiny is growing around SoftBank's federal data center deal. The Japanese tech giant donated fifty million dollars to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before securing a land lease from the federal government to build a sprawling facility in Ohio. Senator Elizabeth Warren has been pressing for answers about the timing, and that pressure doesn't appear to be letting up.
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